The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Currently consisting of China,Russia and four Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan andTajikstan), covers more than three fifths of the Eurasian Landmass and represents onequarter of the world population. H
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Currently consisting of China,Russia and four Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan andTajikstan), covers more than three fifths of the Eurasian Landmass and represents onequarter of the world population. Hn that sense it is the biggest security organisation inthe world next to the UN.The SCO is also the only international security organization,where China is a member and the United States is not.As will be demonstrated belowcentral Asia is at the centre of the organisation both in a geographical and politicalsense.if India, Pakistan and Iran, which joined the organization in 2005 as observers(Plus Mongolia in 2004) are included, the organization represents about half the worldpopulation and contains four nuclear powers.The organzation calls for greter economic cooperation among its members ,and at ameeting on September 23, 2003, Wen Jiabao, the premier of the Peoples Republic ofChina (PRC) ,proposed the establishment over the long term of an SCO – wide freetrade area designed to improve the flow of goods in the region by easing traderestrictions, such as tariffs.The SCO, s Security agenda is vast.The organization has been compared to theWarsaw pact and referred to as the " NATO of the East.
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